The Starboard side stern drive can be put into beach without pressing the red button on the top of my Volvo Penta switch. My port side when raised stops at beach and to raise to full tilt the red button has to be pushed and you can hear a relay operating.

I suspect that its the switch or relay, but without knowing where it is, (The wire disappears behind the helm) I thought it easier to ask someone that may have had this problem before.I have swopped the wires over to each controller but then one will work and the other will not.

Consort wrote:The Starboard side stern drive can be put into beach without pressing the red button on the top of my Volvo Penta switch. My port side when raised stops at beach and to raise to full tilt the red button has to be pushed and you can hear a relay operating.

I suspect that its the switch or relay, but without knowing where it is, (The wire disappears behind the helm) I thought it easier to ask someone that may have had this problem before.I have swopped the wires over to each controller but then one will work and the other will not.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Paul, When you swap the wires, does the problem swap to the other drive?

No if the wires are crossed nothing changes.The port side is fine and I can hear a relay operating when the red button is pressed. The starboard side that isn’t correct has no relay noise when the button is pressed. I’ll have to hunt for the relay behind the helm somewhere I think.